Odessa

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Hard Luck crater

Although Odessa Crater is unimpressive, and almost completely filled in with sediments, local residents once hoped it might attract tourists. They planned to build an underground gallery to show off the giant meteorite that they believed lay buried deep beneath the crater. But after months of digging, workers found only small meteorite fragments and a fossil of a primitive horse. Researchers later realized the huge meteorite must have exploded on impact.